Employment

JOB OPENINGS

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Title: Bilingual Spanish/English Outreach Advocate

FLSA: Non-exempt Classification: Full time, regular employee

Purpose: Performs direct client services and record keeping for Shelter, Outreach and Co-located Housing Programs with an emphasis on Spanish monolingual and bilingual clients.

Supervision Received and Exercised: Reports to and receives supervision from the Outreach Program Manager. Exercises no direct supervision.

Hours: Crossroads Safehouse operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide Safehousing and services to its clients and the community. All employees must be available for scheduling flexibility covering evening; weekend and holiday shifts are required.

Essential Functions: Crisis Intervention and Victim Advocacy: • Provides crisis intervention in-person and via phone to victims of domestic violence. • Provides safety planning, individual advocacy, protection order and victim’s compensation information, victim rights information and assistance to victims of domestic violence. • Manages a caseload of residential, outreach, and longer term stay clients. • Provides information, community referral, legal advocacy, and support to victims and their families. • Conducts client intakes, orientation, contracts, and exit interviews. Performs record keeping functions pertaining to clients, educational and referral literature. • Serves as a member of the staff team; participates in client case management, staff meetings, and team efforts in problem solving, applicable program and policy development, program evaluation, and planning. • Assists in maintaining the shelter and helps ensure the readiness of rooms for occupancy.

Outreach Advocacy and Co-located Housing: • Facilitates Residential and Outreach support groups as needed/as assigned. • Cooperates and nurtures relationships with community agencies to establish strong community resources and referrals for clients. • Delivers training curriculum to new employees, including one-on-one instruction and shadow shifts. • Contributes to and supports Outreach and Co-located Housing Program policies and procedures.

Other Job Duties: • Assists in the gathering of statistical data on program activity. • May assist in assigning duties to volunteers and interns for the Shelter and Outreach Programs. • Supports the facilitation of educational and promotional Crossroads/domestic violence programs and presentations to various partnership service agencies and community organizations and gatherings. • Supports and maintains relationships with outreach sources such as human service organizations. • Creates and implements Bilingual outreach support groups in the community. • Performs related duties as assigned by Outreach Program Manager.

Experience and Training: • Four year’s employment experience in human services or related field preferred. • Bilingual Spanish/English. • A Bachelor’s Degree in a Behavioral Science Field or related field.

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